On her own schedule! Glossier CEO Emily Weiss has been vocal about her decision to freeze her eggs since first revealing that she was undergoing the procedure on May 5 in her Instagram Stories.

(Photo courtesy of Emily Weiss)

“Freaking 11 days of injecting myself in the stomach 3x/day to freeze my eggs,” the 34-year-old captioned the photo, where she’s seen cupping her belly. “Over tomorrow. Bloated; proud; grateful to have the option. Major props to ladies who do this!”

In a followup post on Wednesday, May 15, the CEO and founder of the direct-to-consumer beauty brand that achieved unicorn status in March 2019 (The Wall Street Journal reported that Glossier is now valued at $1.2 billion following a $100 million Series D), Weiss explained why Mother’s Day was extra special to her.

“My mom was in town because I was going through the egg freezing process, a luxury not only from a price perspective, but from a family planning—timing—perspective, so I got to spend the day with her, and we visited the Glossier store where our editors were handing out roses just because,” she wrote. “It was a great day.”

As for her personal decision to freeze her eggs, Weiss added: “I plan on being a great mom, but I’m not ready now, and I certainly wasn’t ready in my twenties. Thank god I have the right to choose.”

The beauty guru said she was prompted to open up about her procedure by Alabama’s recent decision to pass a law that makes abortion illegal and punishable by up to 99 years in prison—”denying millions of women a fundamental right to govern their bodies and be the authors of their own lives,” Weiss shared.

Her post quickly garnered over 121 comments and 16,580 likes, with many followers showing support for her speaking up about her decision.

“Thank you for this,” one follower commented. “Your post has helped me see the positive, to have perspective, to remember to feel happy that I have the luxury of options, and anger that so many women have none.”

Another added, “Thank you for this beautiful and powerful message.”

For Anne Hogarty, CEO of Extend Fertility, an egg-freezing facility in New York City, seeing celebrities like Weiss, Martin and Sofia Vergara talk about freezing their eggs helps de-stigmatize the process.

“For the first time ever, women in their 30s are having more children than those in their 20s, according the CDC,” Hogarty tells Parade. “However, this social shift has not yet had an impact on the biological ‘clock’ that impacts fertility; that is where egg freezing can help provide women with more options.”

Hogarty says that the egg freezing process typically entails 8–10 days of hormone injections and 5–7 short office visits, which includes blood tests and transvaginal ultrasound exams, followed by a 15-minute surgical procedure performed under mild anesthesia to retrieve the eggs from the ovaries.

“There are no scars left or stitches required,” she shares. “After the retrieval, the embryologist preserves the eggs through a process called vitrification. After this process, eggs are immersed in liquid nitrogen to preserve them.”

The national average egg freezing cost is $11,000 per cycle, according to a 2017 report by FertilityIQ.com, but Hogarty says research is key, as each center typically offers their own prices.

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